Day 321 - November 17th

For some parents school homework seems to be a real issue especially if the children are quite young. It isn't something that really bothers me and I actually think our village school has got it about right when it comes to homework. Lara gets weekly spellings to learn and is expected to read a few pages of her school reader every evening. I quite enjoy sitting down with her quietly to listen to her read. In addition the whole school receive one piece of homework in the form of a 'learning log'. Each week the learning logs are handed out on a Friday and are expected to be completed a returned by the following Wednesday. Each week there is a task in the learning log. Last week there was a question "Why do we wear poppies?", the week before it was "What can you tell me about Autumn?" (the craft robo came in handy for cutting out autumn leaves for that one LOL) . The children aren't expected to spend hours on the learning log and can complete the task any way they want - through writing, drawing, diagrams, photographs, painting, collage, etc. and parents are encouraged to work with the children. Lara used to work on her learning log on a Friday as soon as she got it but recently because of other activities it has often been left until the day before it's due in. So, this evening we worked on this weeks task - "Where does electricity come from and how does it get to your house?"